EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Wanfang Data have announced a new agreement to give researchers access to scholarly information from China through EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata from four Chinese databases that contain more than 35 million records of journal articles, dissertations and conference papers is now available in EDS, the world's most-used research discovery tool.
Wanfang Data is a leading provider of electronic resources for Chinese studies, and indexes content from some of the most important published resources on Chinese culture, medicine, business, science and engineering. The databases that are now available are: China Local Gazetteers: nearly 27,000 Chinese gazetteer books published after 1949 that cover geographic and historic records of provinces and autonomous regions in China; China Online Journals: more than 2.4 million records for more than 7,700 core journals in China in a variety of disciplines; Dissertations of China: 2.7 million records for dissertations and Master's theses from Chinese research institutions from 1980 – to date; and Academic Conferences in China: 2.8 million records from conferences held in China since 1986.
According to Peter Kung, EBSCO Information Services Vice-President of Sales for Greater China, the agreement allows academic libraries to provide more Chinese resources to researchers.
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